1874 in France

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Events from the year 1874 in France.

Events

23 January - Camille Saint-Saëns' composition Danse Macabre is premiered.
25 April - Louis Leroy reviews the first Impressionist exhibition, held in Paris, and coins the term with reference to Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise.

29 July - Auguste Giroux, rugby union player (died 1953).
4 September - Jean d'Orléans, duc de Guise, great-grandson of Louis Philippe I, King of the French (died 1940).
4 October - Joseph d'Arbaud, poet (died 1950).
25 October - Henri Bénard, physicist (died 1939).
2 November - Georges Andrique, painter (died 1964).
14 November - André-Gaston Prételat, General (died 1969).
5 December - Henriette Caillaux, socialite and assassin (died 1943).
6 December - Lucien Démanet, gymnast.
24 December - Yves Le Febvre, writer and politician (died 1959).

8 January - Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, writer, ethnographer, historian and archaeologist (born 1814).
13 January - Victor Baltard, architect (born 1805).
26 January - Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, entomologist (born 1799).
7 March - Jean Cruveilhier, anatomist (born 1791)
4 April - Charles Ernest Beulé, archaeologist and politician (born 1826).
15 May - Auguste Carayon, Jesuit author and bibliographer (born 1813).
30 June - Blanche d'Antigny, singer and actress (born 1840).
4 September - Alfred de Bougy, poet and author (born 1814).
5 December - Hippolyte François Jaubert, politician and botanist (born 1798).
22 December - Louis Aubert-Roche, physician (born 1810).
31 December - Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, politician (born 1807).

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